Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Dee Roycroft’s ingenious play could be considered dystopian, but the pessimism doesn’t get everyone down
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: John Cronin, Bláithín Mac Gabhann and Claire J Loy in Amelia by Dee Roycroft. Photograph: Ste MurraySomewhere in the near future, the residents of a farm on the west coast have seen it all: a world blighted by erratic weather and widespread infectious disease that has returned to a predigital era of radio-wave technology, and where several species of animal have disappeared.
Enda, in Mac Gabhann’s superb performance, is a perfect picture of young frustration: quick to back-talk, annoyed with their hometown and resenting an overprotective father who won’t let them go see the world. They are also the play’s most insightful character.
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising starsRoycroft’s play is interested not only in a vision of the future but also in how we will experience those stories in a world where theatre infrastructure collapses.
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